A Forecast Is Not a Verdict: Why The Economist Misreads 2027
By KOLA ALAPINNI The Economist’s “Nigerians Dislike Their President, But May Re-elect Him Anyway” is a confident piece, and a narrow one. It grants the dislike, then treats it as electorally irrelevant. Incumbency, a split opposition, a Muslim Muslim ticket, and a public that expects little will, on this reading, carry President Bola Tinubu to […]
Impeaching the President demagogue
IMPEACHMENT has become a reckless demagogue in our House of Representatives. Members who feel that they are not receiving enough attention on their request for constituency funds in the budget have threatened to impeach the President.
The perils of taxation without credibility
A MAJOR problem of Nigeria is the oil money. Oil money is extraordinary in that it does not come from any national effort, toil or sweat.
Cost of free education
THERE is no free lunch anywhere,” my friend said to me. “Not even in Freetown,” he added. It was a joke but contained enormous wisdom. In our elementary economics which another respected friend of mine often derisively refers to as O.A. Lawal economics, we learnt the concept of cost as the opportunity given up.
Why must Edo people be impoverished?
I had, in a number of published articles in recent times, raised salient issues covering various aspects of Governor Adams Oshiomhole’s approach to governance in Edo State. The Governor has failed to provide answers to the critical questions raised.
Beckoned to serve
BECKONED to Serve’ is the autobiography of AlhajiShehuUsman Aliyu Shagari, the first President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria under the American-style presidential system of government.
